Adriene has been volunteering for what I consider to be a very worthy cause, and I'd like to pass on some goodness to you (is anybody out there?!).
In an e-mail to friends and family, she writes...
"I am writing to tell you about the Tap Project; a US Fund for UNICEF project that involves restaurants asking their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually enjoy for free, with all funds raised going to UNICEF's efforts to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world. According to the World Water Council and UNICEF, 1.1 BILLION people have little or no access to clean drinking water, and 4,200 CHILDREN DIE every day from water borne diseases. That's ONE CHILD EVERY 20 SECONDS, just to give you some perspective."
[Danika again now]...
Here's how it works...You go out to eat at a participating restaurant (you all probably eat out at least once a week anyway, so just select the right place!) between March 22-28, you add at least $1 to your bill, and for each $1 that you pay, a child gets a 40 day supply of clean drinking water. I can say with some certainty that $1 in the grand scheme of your life or my life is nothing, and water is nothing...but to them, it's |everything|.
HERE you can enter your zip code and find a list of participating restaurants...
HERE you can watch the video...
HERE you can check out the website... (This includes stories of how receiving water impacted a child's life. One writes that since he did not have to make the long journey for water anymore, he was allowed to go to school! Think of THAT...a lack of water was preventing a child from receiving an education...).
Let's all do this...something we normally do anyway, but with added value this time. Can you even imagine life without clean water?! No. And no one else should have to either.
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